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Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro
American Author
Born: Apr 10, 1962
Life Live Me Pain Writer You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling. Dani Shapiro
Words Feeling Sit Down Out Find Scribbling Notebook Across Page Start
I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself. Dani Shapiro
Me Son Husband Sense Live Our Our Lives Purpose Rituals Emotionally Idea Days Most Devoted Devotion Practices Am Intellectually Itself Meaning Manner Productive Help Lives
As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness. Dani Shapiro
Witness Job Our Only Writers Imagine
Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house. Dani Shapiro
Myself Sometimes Elsewhere Hours House Am Fallen Moved Legs Room Realize Asleep Body Desk
Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock. Dani Shapiro
Freedom Thoughts Random Pain Beneath Our Fluttering Hides Run Through Heads Know Loop Bedrock Endless Getting Much
I'm an urban person who loves living in the country. Dani Shapiro
Country Living Person Loves Urban Who
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not. Dani Shapiro
Complicated Mother Father Religious Strongly Fact Had Identify Childhood Being Deeply Orthodox Raised Jewish
I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire. Dani Shapiro
Home Woman World Fire Kids Marry Temple Investment Go Expected Banker Where Suburbs Orthodox Raise Raised Set Jewish
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again. Dani Shapiro
Time You Book Every Every Time Write Over Learn How Again Each Start
I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city. Dani Shapiro
Life Love People Country Met Community Living City More Welcoming Surprised Lots Than Did Interesting Social Interesting People Much Really Social Life Even Now
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew. Dani Shapiro
Me Old Fluent About Spoke Until Years Hebrew Stranger Things Orthodox Raised Jew Thirteen
I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult. Dani Shapiro
Young Kid Television Adult Commercials Young Adult Act Used
Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter! Dani Shapiro
Love Me Strange Husband Films Books Way Stay Because Still Person Screenwriter Much Stranger Film Watching
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way. Dani Shapiro
Music Me Way Mood Find Inspires Write Puts Gets Listen Actually Right
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative. Dani Shapiro
You Creative Hurt Blame Memoir About Write
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. Dani Shapiro
Life Me Own Running About Haunting My Own Through Were Realising Themes Really Novels Started
My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful. Dani Shapiro
Beautiful Myself Decision Focus Made Parents Sense No Sense Never Had Looks
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers. Dani Shapiro
Disappointment Matter Whatever Every Rejection Our Writer Maintain Equanimity Withstand Lot Where Order Necessary Need Careers
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' Dani Shapiro
Life Simple Live Only Write Writer Answer How

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